SUPPORTIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does supportive mean? 

• SUPPORTIVE (adjective)
  The adjective SUPPORTIVE has 1 sense:

1. furnishing support or assistance

  Familiarity information: SUPPORTIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPPORTIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Furnishing support or assistance

Context example:

his family was supportive of his attempts to be a writer

Similar:

accessory; adjunct; adjuvant; ancillary; appurtenant; auxiliary (furnishing added support)

accessary; accessory (aiding and abetting in a crime)

certificatory (serving to certify or endorse authoritatively)

collateral; confirmative; confirmatory; confirming; corroborative; corroboratory; substantiating; substantiative; validating; validatory; verificatory; verifying (serving to support or corroborate)

demonstrative of (serving to prove or demonstrate)

encouraging; supporting (furnishing support and encouragement)

Also:

positive (characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.)

Antonym:

unsupportive (not furnishing support or assistance)

Derivation:

support (argue or speak in defense of)

support (be behind; approve of)

support (give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to)

 Context examples 

Damage to the muscles, bones and their supportive structral attachments.

(Musculoskeletal Injury, NCI Thesaurus)

Sarcoma is a cancer that begins in bone, cartilage, fat, muscle, blood vessels, or other connective or supportive tissue.

(Cancer, NCI Dictionary)

Here, Saturn and Pluto will be supportive.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A slow-growing type of central nervous system tumor that forms from glial (supportive) tissue of the brain and spinal cord.

(Juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma, NCI Dictionary)

A type of tumor in which surface epithelial cells grow downward into the underlying supportive tissue.

(Inverted papilloma, NCI Dictionary)

The bioreactor device created a supportive environment for the wound where the tissue could grow as it did during embryogenesis.

(Scientists Help Frogs to Regenerate Their Limbs with Bioreactor Device, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A rare tumor that usually forms in bone, but may also form in cartilage, muscle, fat, blood vessels, or other supportive tissue in the body.

(GCT, NCI Dictionary)

A type of central nervous system tumor that forms from glial (supportive) tissue of the brain and spinal cord.

(Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, NCI Dictionary)

Also called comfort care, supportive care, and symptom management.

(Palliative Care, NCI Dictionary)

A type of glioma (cancer of the brain that comes from glial, or supportive, cells).

(Gliosarcoma, NCI Dictionary)